MAY 2016 "Land of the Free Because of the brave!" Hatch-a-Long Hosted by, Mike & Sally

[cree57i]

I have a little oddity to show from the Easter Hatch along-

This is a little guy (?) that was supposed to be a Dark Brown Leghorn...there WAS a fence hopping Swedish Flower Hen rooster on the loose when this happened. The rooster is not crested and you wouldn't thing a DBL would have any propensity towards a crest, but if you look closely you can see a little white top hat. He is a cutie pie. He acts more like a Swede than a leghorn, i.e. not insane.

 

[chicklover 1998]

I have a little oddity to show from the Easter Hatch along-

This is a little guy (?) that was supposed to be a Dark Brown Leghorn...there WAS a fence hopping Swedish Flower Hen rooster on the loose when this happened. The rooster is not crested and you wouldn't thing a DBL would have any propensity towards a crest, but if you look closely you can see a little white top hat. He is a cutie pie. He acts more like a Swede than a leghorn, i.e. not insane. SFH can have crests her birds may just have some recessive crest genes., and for that age he is rather red so i would say roo

 

[cree57i]

BTW, got Broody #12 today.

Out of cat boxes for them to sit in. Will have to see what they come up with now! A month ago I was getting 4 dozen eggs/day. Got a dozen today.

Thank goodness the leghorns and Silverudd Blue don't do broody! I am going to have a bunch of chicks hatch in May!

 

[sasafras4u2]

BTW, got Broody #12 today.

Out of cat boxes for them to sit in. Will have to see what they come up with now! A month ago I was getting 4 dozen eggs/day. Got a dozen today.

Thank goodness the leghorns and Silverudd Blue don't do broody!  I am going to have a bunch of chicks hatch in May!

I am loving my babies. I think I might have some roos lol staring to get waddles on 3 of the isabelles. Lol

 

[Farmer Viola]

OE is hatched
EE egg is zipping
AMF egg is still just pipped
SA egg has a new pip!
nothing from the GM egg...

 

[OneMountainAcres]

Just locked down 7 turkey eggs. I thought they were due Saturday but no, they're due Friday. Oops! About half of the are already internally pipped lol

 

[cree57i]

I agree. One of the roosters hatch mates has a crest. It was just a big surprise to see it come out of a leghorn egg when I thought they were isolated.


The apparent father.



The expected parents.



The outcome.

 

[cree57i]

I am loving my babies. I think I might have some roos lol staring to get waddles on 3 of the isabelles. Lol

I am very glad you are loving your babies.

 

[Bantambird]

I agree. One of the roosters hatch mates has a crest. It was just a big surprise to see it come out of a leghorn egg when I thought they were isolated. The apparent father. The expected parents. The outcome.

lol! That's hilarious! I've had fence hopping roos before too, made some cool olive eggers. Talk about a surprise!

 

[banannalee]

Sally i sent u a PM